We use names like climate change and global warming. Really, we are also talking about Survival. It is very clear that this struggle is not about future generations. It is here.
Right Now:
- Desertification is running rampant in Africa, exasperating societal and health issues.
- Heat waves have spread over Europe claiming hundreds of thousands of lives.
- Water is vanishing in many parts of Asia, while in others, it is too plentiful as the sea claims islands.
- Droughts lay thickly over Australia, exhausting their agricultural system.
- Diseases are spreading exponentially each year all over South America.
- And, Hurricanes and forest fires have spun out of control throughout North America.
- The Ice Caps, our global climate stabilizers, home to species who can live nowhere else, are melting.
EVERYWHERE, the fossil fuel industry is wreaking havoc. And, as a result, life on Earth is changing.
Even though we are witnessing these changes before our eyes, even though scientists and communities all over the globe are warming us that we much change our behavior, quickly, we continually hear this false contradiction parroted throughout the most powerful nations in the world: what is scientifically necessary is not politically viable.
So, it is not politically viable to adhere to scientific targets that ensure sustainable, peaceful, equitable, and collaborative climate solutions? But, somehow, it is politically viable to let half the world drown in climate chaos?
The vast majority of people all over the world are calling on their governments to make these necessary changes, and Youth are at the forefront of this. We do not accept that some people are just not worth saving.